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Same-day discharge after TAVR is safe for low-risk patients, leads to considerable cost savings

Nearly 90% of survey respondents said they had a positive experience at the Care Hotel, and even more indicated they would likely recommend the program to others.

The five-year agreement would make Kaiser Permanente the only insurer with a statewide Medi-Cal contract in California.

A filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission listed seven civil actions brought forth by Cerner stockholders that suggest disclosure documents contain "insufficient or incorrect" information.

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The Rhode Island Attorney General's office said "one or more" entities may have diverted from standard information safeguards.

The findings back long-held beliefs that wasteful spending on healthcare is tied, in part, to inappropriate decision making, researchers explained in JAMA Health Forum.

Hypertension patients measured their blood pressure less frequently during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research published in Hypertension. In addition, when those patients did measure their blood pressure, the readings were less healthy than they had been before the pandemic.

Under the Biden administration's new mandate, Medicare and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries will be eligible for eight free tests each month.

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The approval, made as part of a special FDA pilot program, took just 50 days.